Motivational Quotes

Joy

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Joy

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Fielding, Henry

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love

Mother Teresa

Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Lawrence, Harding

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Hubbard, Elbert

Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

Platen

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?

Campolo, Tony

Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.

Sarnoff, David

10.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

11.

Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it.

Marcia, Wieder

12.

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

13.

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Michel de Montaigne

14.

Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

Harvey, Paul

15.

Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.

Ecclesiastes

16.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

17.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

18.

You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

Marden, Orison Swett

19.

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

20.

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked

Nin, Anais

22.

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

23.

Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.

Browning, Robert

24.

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

25.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Bach, Richard

26.

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]

Bible

27.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

28.

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Lewis, C. S.

29.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

30.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Hepburn, Katharine

31.

It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

Marden, Orison Swett

32.

A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Talmud, The

33.

If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.

34.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Pearl Buck

35.

'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Dickinson, Emily

36.

Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.

Tourneur, Cyril

37.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

38.

What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.

Gillies, Jerry

39.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

Quarles, Francis

40.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

41.

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

42.

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

43.

The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

Ballard, M. Russell

44.

I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Chrysler, Walter

45.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

46.

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

47.

Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Biondi, Matt

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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.